The Pulse Archive

With the country in the throes of a heroin epidemic, politicians on both sides are talking about the importance of addiction treatment, a ...

Last year, the police chief of Gloucester, Massachusetts, made an unusual offer on his department’s Facebook page. Heroin addicts w ...

The science of public service announcements is tricky.  If someone offers you drugs, prevention educator John Hampton says, t ...

Why was the response to crack far harsher than today’s outreach to heroin users? During the latter part of the 1980s, Robert Stu ...

Holly Platts could have easily joined the more t ...

In hospitals lately, the emphasis has been on quality of care, patient outcomes, and avoiding repeat visits whenever possible. So do thos ...

For one designer, creating these posters was like ‘coming full circle’ for his family.  NASA has been quite the p ...

It’s late afternoon at a busy medical clinic in Baltimore. Dr. John Allen sits at a small desk by the window. Pale yellow sunlight ...

My name is Diego Luke, and I am a 17-year-old high school junior in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grow ...

Should race be used as a variable in genetics research? A new paper ...

Imagine that you’re a receptionist at a medical clinic. You call the name of the next patient — Fred Jones — and a woman stands ...

Nurse executives say clinical experience matters in top healthcare jobs.  The way hospitals make money is changing. Governmen ...

Drexel scientists are working on a natural solution to protect rivers and streams. Cities have been tinkering with their sewer sys ...

You’re walking around, going about your day-to-day life, and suddenly, a song pops into your head. Our brains are filled with songs ...

‘I think people aren’t going to go. And sadly, the coverage they’re going to get is Brazil and Zika; it’s not goi ...